English Vines

Into the garden of our new house
Our neighbor's English vines
Tunneled under a retaining wall
Not equal to containing all
The debris of a cracked couple
Growing sicker and sicker

By night our neighbors’ invading vines
Rooted into my dreams from underground
Twined their nooses around our lives
Branching out manically
They choked our sycamore
And grew thicker and thicker

And when I finally scaled their fence
To kill the source of this malevolence
Were my neighbors watching me
From their house I hacked away?
But vines like these root too deep to kill
We keep our blinds closed now forever